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Lafofa languages

Lafofa languages

Dialect cluster of the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan

Lafofa, also Tegem–Amira, is a dialect cluster spoken in the southern Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. Blench (2010) considers the Tegem and Amira varieties to be distinct languages; as Lafofa is poorly attested, there may be others.

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Greenberg (1950) classified Lafofa as one of the Talodi languages, albeit a divergent one, but without much evidence. More recently this position has been abandoned, and Lafofa is left unclassified within Niger–Congo. Norton (2016) tentatively finds Lafofa to be closest to the Ijoid languages.[2] It is considered a language isolate by Glottolog.

Unlike the neighbouring Talodi-Heiban languages which have SVO word order, the Lafofa languages have SOV word order.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Lafofa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Russell Norton, 'Lafofa: a distant Ijoid-related language'. CLAN 2016
  3. [3]
    Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9. S2CID 133888593.
  • Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Does Kordofanian constitute a group and if not, where does its languages fit into Niger-Congo?"
  • Roger Blench, 2011 (ms), "Tegem–Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger–Congo"
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